iLike reportedly lands $13 million

iLike, the online music recommendation service led by Ali and Hadi Partovi, has secured $13.3 million from strategic partner Ticketmaster, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat.

Hadi Partovi

They report that Ticketmaster, the giant ticket vendor that is part of Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp., will own 25 percent of iLike.

The Seattle startup, formerly known as GarageBand.com, raised $2.5 million from venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, MTV co-founder Bob Pittman and others in July.

Here’s my story on the company from October in which Ali Partovi says iLike “brings a social ingredient to the iPod” by analyzing one’s music library.

UPDATE: I just heard back from Ali Partovi tonight who confirms the $13.3 million investment from Ticketmaster. In a followup e-mail, Partovi said the partnership “helps each of us broaden our horizons into new territory.”

“The vision for this relationship is that every consumer who buys a ticket on Ticketmaster will consider joining the iLike community; and through iLike they might later discover new acts or new events that might lead them back to a purchase at Ticketmaster,” he said.